Question / Help Monitor Capture + Aero Disabled

[the other dan]

I started using OBS last year for local recording, my scene was set up thus: Monitor Capture/GameCapture/Camera, Aero disabled.

So I would start the recording at the desktop, then launch the game, and have the camera feed on top.

Just in the past week I noticed that my recordings had a terrible stutter, but there have been no hardware changes.

I tried a bunch of different recording combinations yesterday (32bit, 64bit, aero on, aero off, etc) with different games, and what seems to have fixed the stutter was enabling Aero, and removing Monitor Capture.

So my question is this: did something change in OBS so that recording the desktop prior to launching a game now doesn't work, or was my working setup an anomaly?

It's driving me nuts.

Thanks

 

[Sapiens]

Please post a log - https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/problem-make-sure-to-post-a-log-and-or-crash-dump-howto.97/

 

[the other dan]

https://gist.github.com/91b27eb029637c4d6a8a This is the log from the last run, with no stutter.

https://gist.github.com/0fd695889c9930452bfc And here I turned on Aero and Monitor and the video was stuttering again.

 

[dodgepong]

Monitor capture on Windows 7 in general is really bad, and I never recommend it. I always recommend Window capture or DWM capture instead.

 

[the other dan]

I gotcha. So would you say that the times when my scene worked before some sort of freak occurrence considering that monitor capture isn't supposed to work? I'm still really happy with the recordings now that I've got it sorted out.